Video: Anti-abortion protester disrupts Sotomayor hearing

posted at 1:50 pm on July 13, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

It didn’t take long for the first disruption of the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearing to occur. An anti-abortion protester shouted about “unborn Latinos,” bringing Senator Dianne Feinstein’s questioning to a momentary halt:

The second disruption occured a couple of hours later; I’ll add the video to this post as soon as I get it.

I oppose abortion, but is this the correct strategy to fight it? We regularly roll our eyes at the Code Pink protests at Congressional hearings when they disrupt proceedings. They even got on Barney Frank’s nerves in March. These disruptions marginalize the legitimate efforts by pro-life activists to end the millions of abortions in the US.

As Life News attests, we need to emphasize the mainstream credibility of pro-life views in this administration:

During a Senate committee meeting on Friday, a leading pro-abortion senator was forced to admit that one of the health care bills pending in the Senate will include abortion coverage. After the admission, the Senate panel voted to include abortions in that version of a national health care plan.

Three pro-life senators used Thursday’s Senate HELP Committee meeting to force the leadership’s hand on its agenda of including abortion in a public health care plan.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat, stammered her way through an explanation of an amendment to the health care bill that would cover abortion.

When pressed by Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, she admitted that her language would force health insurance companies to contract with abortion groups like Planned Parenthood.

We need to keep pressing Congress to keep from expanding abortion in the US, especially by providing taxpayer funding for it, as Obamacare will do in a public plan if it follows the rules set forth for private-sector insurance.

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We are not going to win the hearts and minds of people by making fools out of ourselves. I think it is a natural for Obama to want abortions covered in his Obamacare plan and that is where we should focus our fire.

We need to keep pressing Congress to keep from expanding abortion in the US, especially by providing taxpayer funding for it, as Obamacare will do in a public plan if it follows the rules set forth for private-sector insurance.

Come on Ed, don’t you know it’s the government’s job to provide people with their rights like getting an abortion!!!

/sarc

My guess under Obamacare:
Waiting time for an abortion: 1 day
Average waiting time for surgery in general: 3 months.

We need to keep pressing Congress to keep from expanding abortion in the US, especially by providing taxpayer funding for it, as Obamacare will do in a public plan if it follows the rules set forth for private-sector insurance.

Though, I’ve got to admit I had the thought that Obamacare could result in less abortions as ‘services’ in general become more scarce – but then I realized that abortions are readily and easily available in Canada and Europe…

It didn’t take long for the first disruption of the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearing to occur. An anti-abortion protester shouted about “unborn Latinos,” bringing Senator Dianne Feinstein’s questioning to a momentary halt:

I fail to see any difference between the death camps of WW2, and the death factories of “Planned Parenthood.” Once again, the destroyers of children in the womb have to use euphemisms in order to minimalize what they really do.

I don’t know how anybody associated with this infanticide can look at themselves in the mirror. And yet, as time goes by, the abortionists become more and more institutionalized, because of the Socialist death grip of the executive and the legislative branches.

These people want no mention of God in the public forum – yet they will demand that:

Ed, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Good Americans are fed up with D.C. bi-party plutocrats who ignore us at every turn. Take your country club decorum and shove it. These a-holes need to be shaken up at every opportunity.

I oppose abortion, but is this the correct strategy to fight it? We regularly roll our eyes at the Code Pink protests at Congressional hearings when they disrupt proceedings. They even got on Barney Frank’s nerves in March. These disruptions marginalize the legitimate efforts by pro-life activists to end the millions of abortions in the US.

I used to agree with your position. That the rule of law was all about doing things properly and that included not disrupting Senate hearings for racist radicals even though she what little we know about her position on abortion makes it more likely than not the killing will not stop anytime soon.

No more. After watching this corrupt administration break the nation up as political spoils for his cronys. The UAW getting the auto industry, his fat cat contributors gettting good deals in through the bank deals. The fact that Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are as guilty as anyone at Fannie/Freddie for the collapse of the housing market…. After all that spending and socialism in six months I say any group that has a legitimate cause should go for it by whatever means necessary. The hell with playing by the rules when the filthy liar in the White House and his corrupt party never did. Time for the social issues to get an airing that doesn’t start with a partisan whore like Feinstein framing the debate.

We need to keep pressing Congress to keep from expanding abortion in the US, especially by providing taxpayer funding for it, as Obamacare will do in a public plan if it follows the rules set forth for private-sector insurance.

Yeah because Congress has been so responsive to pressure from pro-lifers to date. Face it, this is one battle that has already been lost because the special interests have bought the Democrats outright.

Disrupting proceedings is a legitimate form of social disobedience. I think it one that should be practiced with restraint but the fact of the matter is your idea of a “fringe nutter” could really be somebody taking a principled stand on an issue. You think a whore like Feinstein was going to grill the radical racist nominee about abortion to any valid degree? Of course not!!! The answers that Sotomayor gives will all be formulaic and vague. She will never outright answer the questions about her racist comments, affiliations, and rulings. In the end it doesn’t matter so why not have somebody so passionate about the issue of killing off unborn life take a stand in the Senate. It certainly is a better way to express outrage than blowing up a clinic.

IMO, the conditions are pretty well set for a huge backlash at DC and the political class that is more interested in getting re-elected than the concerns of their constituencies. All that is needed now is THE issue that is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. The McCain/Kennedy Amnesty plot was pretty close but not quite there. In the current environment with an unreliable and untrustworthy Chief Executive, a run-amok Congress that has spent billions with nothing to show for it and no way of tracking it, and a massive push for socialism…..

I’m thinking it is only a matter of months before we have that tipping point.

A tactic, yes, but one designed to demonstrate passionate opposition. Call it what it is, then attack it from that standpoint.

spmat on July 13, 2009 at 2:35 PM

I don’t even know if I am accurately ‘attacking it’. To whom was this person’s opposition directed? What was it about this forum, subject, and particular instance that compelled this person to act out? It was an aimless, irrelevant and therefore irrational outburst.

I am passionately opposed to lunacy. It was the behavior that I am describing; not the position.

So how does somebody that is passionate about not killing off life get through the gatekeepers that keep the masses at bay from political whores like Feinstein? E-mails and calls don’t work. There is no such thing as a legitimate town hall to ask politicians about the issues (Obama has just been extremely clumsy with his plants).

I ask you, what the hell is wrong with a little disruption if it means we are talking about it beyond the few seconds it occurred? Sometimes behaving badly is the only way to get things done.

I’d love to see more disruption of congressional proceedings from any source. Anything that keeps those useless, progressive morons from accomplishing anything, is a general good in by book. Nearly everything they’ve done in recent history has added to the burden on society, and taken from liberty and self determination.

Agree, these corrupt and incompetent Democrats have staffers who shield them from their constituents, a press that throws them nothing but softballs and donors who kiss their butts in order to rake in billions later.

Our Congress doesn’t listen to us – they listen to a very small fraction of the people. They cement themselves into office like monarchs. Elections are mere formalities.

Congressmen don’t deserve the respect of Americans, they traded it away for trinkets and beads. That Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are still in Congress after destroying our economy, speaks volumes.

This is how the mortgage meltdown started. Some noisy protestors disturbed peace and quiet at banks and by many years later, banks were lending to prevent disturbance. Lending without down payments and without loan applications.

This is how the mortgage meltdown started. Some noisy protestors disturbed peace and quiet at banks and by many years later, banks were lending to prevent disturbance. Lending without down payments and without loan applications.

seven on July 13, 2009 at 3:21 PM

Don’t compare speaking up on behalf of innocent babies who can’t speak up for themselves to pressuring banks for easy mortgages.

I oppose abortion, but is this the correct strategy to fight it? We regularly roll our eyes at the Code Pink protests at Congressional hearings when they disrupt proceedings. They even got on Barney Frank’s nerves in March. These disruptions marginalize the legitimate efforts by pro-life activists to end the millions of abortions in the US.

Well said. Outbursts like this make us look as bad as the code pink wackos.

Gawd, look at this threads picture. I spot both my U.S. Senators, Kohl& Feingold. What a great pair of human solid waste material they make. Both heavily pro-abortion Jews. Talk about your hypocrites. Jews supporting the American Holocaust. Now Kohl is otherwise harmless. I don’t think he’s ever accomplished anything. He grew up with a silver spoon thanks to mommy & daddy in the grocery and eventually department store businesses he sold. He basically keeps getting elected because he owns the Bucks.
The other guy Feingold is more dangerous. He’s directly from the Madison Communist Party area of Wisconsin. A true enclave of leftists and anarchists that would love to bring this country down.
It just makes me physically sick to see those bums as they bring on a worthless lefty judge.

It’s pretty much a given that Dr. Mengele’s Universal Heathcare Reform bill will provide for abortions and I’m sure the trendy congresscritters will at some point attempt to ban the execution of murderers – but, how is that going to wash with depriving the elderly of needed healthcare? I’m also reasonably certain Mssss Sotomayor will be able to wisely sit in judgement of any case brought before the court relating to these issues and review them with empathy.

Anti-abortion activists have passion and it’s non-violent action so I give it a pass. See how the libs like some of their own medicine. I would like to see some conservative privacy rights group (don’t exists)rush into Acorn offices and start throwing papers on ground and getting peoples name and address who work there. I know it childish, but it makes me feel better. Pay back is a bitch.